Cathleen Callahan

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“One Photograph at a Time” by Cathleen Callahan

Submitted to Contest #144

One Photograph at a Time I was nearly ten-years-old when I saw the first photograph of my mother. She had died four years earlier and since then, I hadn’t seen her face.  I was forgetting what she looked like.  The photo was of her in a white satin wedding gown. And as I looked into her soft eyes, brown hair tucked under her lace veil, I could almost hear her voice, feel her touch.  This one photo had brought my mother back to me.  Prior to that all traces of my mom had been “snuffed out” in a blink of an...

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“Ted” by Cathleen Callahan

Submitted to Contest #140

Cathleen McNamara Callahan  bcallah@optonline.net  631-804-2348 Prompt: Someone with An Unreliable Memory Ted Ted had half-lost his once brilliant memory when we first met. His daughter Ann, who I knew from local tennis, had told me she was putting her dad in an assisted living home. He had been diagnosed with dementia.   Upset at having just started a new job that didn’t give her flexible hours, Ann wasn’t sure how she was going to juggle everything.  “I’d be happy to visit your dad once a week...

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